Dimensions: 35.5 x 45.5 cm
signed and dated below: 'ŁĄCZYŃSKI 59'
Biography
Graphic artist, illustrator and educator, born in Warsaw. During World War II he was active in the structures of the Home Army and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he left Poland and in 1946 ended up in Great Britain. There he began his art education - first at Borough Polytechnic (1949-1952), where he studied illustration, and then continued to study lithography at the Central School of Art and Design (1962-1964).
In the mid-1960s he became involved in the development of the printmaking community in the UK - he co-founded the Printmakers Council, with which he has been involved since its inception in 1965. For more than two decades he taught experimental printmaking at Exeter College of Art and Design (1964-1985), exerting a significant influence on younger generations of artists.
Łączynski's work has been shown in galleries on numerous occasions, including at London's Grabowski Gallery in the 1960s, and his works are in the collections of institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum (which owns nine of his woodcuts), the University of Exeter and the Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Gallery. In 1985 the artist settled in Austria, where he lived and worked until his death.
